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Adult Swim, which held its upfront event last night in New York, announced three new series and several projects in development.
New original series:
THE HEART, SHE HOLLER
The Heart, She Holler is a new live-action soap opera about folk who ain’t never used soap or seen an opera. It’s a satire on the emotional Hee-Hawification of America, set in a town so inbred, the folks have become almost supernaturally wrong. The series is produced by PFFR, and stars Patton Oswalt and Heather Lawless. The Heart, She Holler premieres this fall on Adult Swim.
CHINA, IL
Frank and Steve Smith are brothers who teach in the history department of a state university in China, Illinois. They also happen to be legends in their own minds who will often sacrifice facts, lessons and syllabi for the sake of being awesome. Created by Brad Neely, executive produced by Brad Neely (Creased Comics) and Daniel Weidenfeld and produced by Titmouse, Inc. (Metalocalypse), China, IL premieres this fall on Adult Swim.
TIGHT BROS
Tight Bros is a new animated comedy that follows two moronic “clergybros” who are on a quest for fat beats, hot chicks and tricked out cell phones. Vince and Aaron were called by God to spread a holy message: one of peace, love and tearin’ up the club. By day the two sell religious kitsch at a kiosk in Viceroy Del Sol mall. By night they hunt for babes, but only with mega tans and super smooth waxes in place. Premiering in the spring of 2012, Tight Bros is created and written and executive produced by Sam Johnson and Chris Marcil.
They join previously announced NTSF:SD:SUV and Black Dynamite.
Pilots currently in development:
Regal Productions; Live action comedy created, directed, produced and starring Bob Odenkirk.
The Dummiez; Nick Cannon project
Untitled project with Major Lazer
Untitled project with Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All
Rolling with Dad; 30-minute animated sit-com created by Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg
Untitled project by Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland
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Looking forward to the Odd Future project… a show based on guys who rap about raping women. I’m sure the press is gonna love this one!
Again with the live action. It’s the CARTOON NETWORK. Clearly this channel is doing the retreat so many cable networks have done…abandoning their core mission gradually…changing their names to initials or other names entirely till people forget what they ever really were. They’ll pay in the end though when a la cart finally arrives to the cable universe. If all the networks just start looking like low rent broadcast, there’ll be no need to keep them. If they stay specific, then fans of that genre will keep them around. That’s a warning to Syfy as well.
It’s ADULT SWIM, a distinct block of programming from CARTOON NETWORK. They share a parent company and a channel, that’s it. Their philosophy and demographic are TOTALLY DIFFERENT. If you don’t understand the medium, don’t complain or comment.
It’s all about the advertisers. That’s why SyFy shows WWE Wrestling. If they stick to their core mission, the advertisers disappear. So they compromise to stay alive. I don’t like it, either, but I’d rather have SyFy with 50-60% Science Fiction-ish programming than no SyFy at all.
i miss Home Movies…
Gee, no new Anime? But. . I thought it was huge! HUGE, I say! Shocking!
[as] says they’re not interested in anime anymore.
Lots of negative, yet political correct, stereotypes. They should sell like gangbusters.
I will watch ANYTHING PFFR does (except Delocated). This is good news indeed.
Also, the Neely show is clearly based off of his Professor Brothers series of skits for superdelux.com I cried laughing during that. Can’t wait.
If anyone needed a comeback, it’s Space Ghost, Coast to Coast.
I saw the test on Heart/Hawler it’s super funny. Something Comedy Central used to look for before becoming a website. Although on their development side -Regal – a live action comedy created, directed, produced and starring Bob Odenkirk will likely die before it has a (likely well-deserved) chance to fail. More Space Ghost please!
cartoon network might as well change its name since it keeps going away from cartoons and winds up more and more live action stuff. its called cartoon network not the live action show network. cartoons means cartoons. but cartoon network will learn the hard way when viewers keep helping disney and nick with their cartoons.
if this junk is what they call “adult swim” than someone has taken the water out of the pool and replaced the water with liquid stupidity. I have not seen a program on this supposedly “adult” segment of programming which hasn’t somehow insulted my intelligence, or hasn’t eventually resorted to some form of “LCD” “humor” in some absolutely puerile attempt to hold my attention.
The only interest “cartoon network” has in programming these days is attracting and holding those with short attention spans, lower IQs, and their daddy’s credit card.
Any resemblance between anything that adults who remember Saturday morning would find worthwhile is purely an accident of well-written and deceptive advertising copy. This is why when I want real cartoons or genuine animation with artistic value, story, characters, or some semblance of plot, I’ll go to “boomerang” or dip into a collection of Japanese animation unaltered by mediocre voice talent and pretentious producers here in the United States.
The biggest laugh I get out of “cartoon network” these days is that these Masters of LCD schlock are getting not one dime out of me, nor are any of the people who advertise, aid, and televise this sort of insulting puerile garbage.